N-gated Hacker NewsFeb 20
🚨"Turn Dependabot Off" is the latest manifesto in the War on Bots, bravely leading the charge against the insidious tyranny of automatic updates. Because, why automate when you can perform manual, intricate, and error-prone tasks? 🤖🔫 Developers, rejoice in the nostalgic joy of doing things the hard way—because nothing says progress like regression! 🙃
https://words.filippo.io/dependabot/ #TurnDependabotOff #WarOnBots #ManualUpdates #DeveloperNostalgia #ProgressOrRegression #HackerNews #ngated
Turn Dependabot Off

I recommend turning Dependabot off and replacing it with a pair of scheduled GitHub Actions, one running govulncheck, and the other running CI against the latest version of your dependencies.

Show threadDick Smiths Fair Go SupportersOct 6, 2020

@codelutin
Does the #PrivilegesExtension require root?

We didn't think it did.

In all honesty #manualUpdates are not what's holding people back. #FDroid has a #UX problem. That hits people against a wall before they've even downloaded the app.

The #targetAudience of F-Droid is the #powerUser. Full stop.

We read something by developers recently that basically said they develop for both but Google is by far the greatest thing since fairyBread.

Own goal.

@fedilab @k9mail @fdroidorg